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Many months ago I sent David a small watercolour drawing of a girl's face, which inspired him to draw over my drawing, enlarge it to a HUGE image, roll it up and send it to me in a cardboard tube..... 

What a look of surprise on her face! But on turning over the image i found a wonderful scrawly message from David, which I read almost every day as it makes me smile, I…

Diane, I don't believe you've REALLY sent me a shrink-wrapped part of a racoon????? No. I think it belongs to a stuffed animal. YES!! NO! I know you. You did that!! 

More? here…

Hello. right now I check facebook more often where I have been "friends" with many mail artists from IUOMA and others. 

You can simply like my art page if you want. Thank you.

https://www.facebook.com/artistgalicias?ref=hl

Right now I pile up many mail art from last year and I am not able to send back at the moment. I have to catch up what I have now, and then I can reply new ones. Sorry for that. And thank you…

Thanks Sue Hobbs for the French knots, Samuel Montalvetti for all this stuff, especially the sweet "Vizzolini" trashpo, and Val for another drinking souvenir!

This piece from TicTac looks as though it has come through a war-torn area! I don't know…

Fab pieces again. New blog on -> http://snailmailsuus.blogspot.nl/

Last weekend we had a lovely visit from Jack Latteman and Marnie who were in Europe and visited us in Breda too. besides the visit also…

Hola querida Marta, gracias por participar en la apertura del Museé de la fin du monde, ya solo faltan 93 días…

The bunny is da shits ... thank you Lisa!

Guido gets his own blog post today. I don't know how he does it. A large amount of mail art leaves his door and all great quality too. Here are…

I draw, paint and sketch most of my mail art. Here are some of the things I use:

Photo One (l to r): Colour Staedtler pens (tripuls fineliner 0.3mm), Staedtler Lumocolour (permanent 0.4mm, 0.6mm, 1.0mm, 1.0-2.5mm), Stablio Watercolour Pencils, Derwent…

Beautiful BLUE painted card arrived in GreeceI 'Love it and all its undulations!(some nice pink and violet , too)

Suus in Mokum sent it in an envelope that she fears is one of the last of the red-white-blue trimmed ones. They are no longer…

From Erni a collage and a coat hanger decorated with a closed matchbox that makes sounds when shaking the artwork. I love these sound boxes Erni combinates with his collage work!

The back-

And then folded out-…

I've been bad not publishing all the mail art I've received. I hope I can change that starting today.

From top l to r: A card to be viewed any which way by Susan Mc Allister, Don't be Afraid to be Alone Because Death is a True Companion by Guido Vermeulen, Advice from a Pigeon by Stripygoose, and a collage by Tina Wittmer. Thanks! What's wonderful…

My postbox was a quite full today, some of mailart treasures:

1) Elegant and romantic postcard about "Silence" theme from Nanou Camut (France)

2) Envelope full of treasures from Nadine Wendell-Mojica -

photos with strangers, just as I like:…

Such a great and wonderful suprise!

Thanks a lot Simon…

I got this interesting card from Jon Foster, very cool.

And this great piece from Suus in Mokum with a sad young lady looking for Johnny. Also a wish for a speedy recovery of my broken foot on the back.…

Katerina Nikoltsou might be the Greek version of America's Johnny Appleseed...  She has apparently been strewing blue grass seeds all over the Greek Isles!  

Now there is so much of it sprouting everywhere  around the ruins of Greece that the goddess Athena has returned from Mount Olymous with her magical WEED-WHACKER to trim the blue blades into a more…

Some of you might know that Halloween is one of my favorite mail-art-posting holidays.  This year, I got an early Halloween surprise from Vizma in Australia!  A whole, scarey, spooky art book!!  And since a picture is worth a thousand words, Here it is posted page-by-page, so that you can have as much fun perusing it as I did...

First the envelope:…

I wrote a huge lot and the wind has arrived and is sweeping all my words into the Ether - so I'm afraid you'll have to make do with images from this work I have been very remiss in posting. But I'm claiming the 1000th amendment. 

Overprinting is a favorite…